skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the most important bit in that was the last line.

"Is it worth it? Nope, it’s not to us." (my emphasis)

Not all businesses are the same. B2B businesses like MailChimp usually don't see major increases in value through third party auth. They're providing serious value. People will go to the effort regardless.

With a casual use B2C site removing even the tiniest piece of friction in the login process can mean the difference between a purchase and people just going away.

It depends. This is why we test shit :-)

(Also - unrelated to this - is that the "login" bit is often not where the biggest win for third-part auth is. It's in reducing friction in registration. I've seen high single digit percentage improvements in abandonment of registration for some B2C sites due to getting profile info from twitter/linkedin/etc. cutting the time it takes to setup accounts fully. Lifetime value also increased since profile info was generally better from those sources which was an important part of users getting value out of the system, and so the business getting value out of those users).

[edit: also - they seem to be looking at total numbers, rather than doing any kind of cohort analysis on the folk using twitter/facebook/whatever... which may well lead to different conclusions]
http://keccak.noekeon.org/files.html

The C code appears to be public domain. Which might be a problem in regions in which public domain is not a thing but should otherwise be fine for use in most projects.
If you use Firefox and any of these IDEs: (IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm, PyCharm), you can use CSS-X-Fire [1] to do precisely that (edit in browser, (optionally) reflect changes in IDE). Nevertheless it's a very good achievement for a JS-based app!

[1] http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire
Serious question: Do you know of successful/large web startups in the last two years that used PHP as their main language?
I listened to that song last night so I would know what the meme was all about.

It is like ear-crack, and I don't even speak Korean.
Yellow Shoes and Personal vs. Company Branding
The interviews with the foreman following the case were pretty damning—it sounded like he barely listened to the judge's instructions and essentially goaded the jury into returning a verdict which expressed his personal feelings about patents more than it reflected anything about Apple vs. Samsung.

I suppose the question, though, is whether he actually did anything that's provably "misconduct"...
Samsung's Claims of Juror Misconduct Revealed in Unredacted Filings
No. This is a fantasy.

A trademark does not take ownership of general words or phrases from the people.
Bitcoin has already gone through two massive crashes like that. Still kicking.
I love this post, it reminds me a bit of the Mark Crick's 'Sartre's Sink' series of books.
What about the possibility of international educational establishments, or purely online ones? There are many good reasons that an educational establishment might not want to be associated with any specific nation.
For git-like storage schemes speed is important. Keccak is slower than SHA-512, so you probably wouldn't want to switch to it.
Vonnegut. Beautiful except for this omission. Anyone?
But if it's a core group of sellers in it for the long run that's sustaining Bitcoin, who's selling the million BTCs/month on MtGox?
Crypto weaknesses are always possible. But generally speaking, widely-deployed algorithm like SHA256, ECDSA, etc (which Bitcoin relies on) don't become suddenly broken one morning. Research progresses slowly (eg. weaknesses found in round-reduced versions of these algorithms), giving ample time to the community to plan for an upgrade when it becomes clear that one of the algorithms will become broken soon.

Bitcoin is also very conservatively designed. For example an address is computed with a RIPEMD160 hash of a SHA256 hash, so one would have to break both algorithms with preimage attacks to be able to generate address collisions allowing an attacker to steal coins from an arbitrary address. Because of this conservative design, it gives it a "safety cushion" to have time to anticipate cryptographic changes if they are needed.
> the Chrome Dev Tools/Firebug don't save your changes back to your source code

Actually the Chrome DevTools can save your changes back to disk! It's not well known, and its fairly new so I don't blame ya.

Here's how it works: (1) make changes to styles as you do (2) you can click through to the Sources pane and live-edit styles there, just like a text editor. (3) Right click and save to disk. choose where to save the file (4) Make some more changes (5) Just hit ctrl-s (or cmd-s) to immediately save back to disk in the same location.

I just made a screencast to show this in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5obNItQiQ
Contact both your bank and mtgox.
Some people don't give a fuck about page views. I highly suspect that @fat is one of those.
It's not the problem, the code is under Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Plus they have tons of data available from market research that capture various trends and what people are looking for even if they (the people) can’t express it product wise. I believe that 9 out of 10 products that we call innovative aren’t just invented out of the blue. They are the result of meticulous observation of trends and users' habits.
Depends on the frequency of cameras, if it is just at the on and off ramps of a motorway, then one could exceed the speed limit for most of the way, determine how much time has been saved and enjoy a tea break at the service station before the last exit.

On a whole day drive that would still be faster as the speeding means you don't have to add on time for breaks.

In France that's effectively what happens. The toll gates are used to determine the average speed check over a journey, and so you can notice that the last service station before a toll gate is busier.

Not that I had a chance to do the same in the clapped out old Volvo I drove through France in.

I personally think average speed checks are great. In London I'd love to see the congestion charge cameras (number recognition technology) also used to check for average speed between any two cameras. I think that if people knew the whole of the city centre had average speed check enforcement that it would be a great benefit to the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users in the city.
jQuery Mobile 1.2.0
The feedback thing is probably along the lines of not wanting to have to have internal controls to deal with confidential information in their feedback processing.
I must've missed where he claimed that he didn't do those things? Their specific methods were always suggested to be something "like x" rather than exactly like it.

Further, he didn't need a method that worked at identifying all people (as tripped up 90% of people in the linked explanation), just this particular one.

I run a forum and often try to identify/discourage PITAs. Sometimes just tracing an IP reveals nothing but the ISP and location/exchange, sure, but other times it'll give me an employer and so on. Trace an IP, get something like accessplus.weblink.telstra.net, recognise your pal's Access Plus business name and you're on your way.

Revealing the method goes some way towards informing future trolls of tricks available to them.

To me, it seemed that the mysterious method referenced was half about luring the troll away from Twitter/etc to a place where they could directly record the IP address. The rest came from there.

Picking out something like this to discredit the entire account is very rough, IMO, and I flagged this story FWIW.
But a loss for those of us who have two brain cells to rub together. We understand that the state now has an incentive to post and enforce unreasonably low speed limits that the vast majority of drivers will violate.

When they say it's about safety, not revenue... it's about the revenue.
Microsoft trying to hijack a term with an already fully established meaning is dishonest and screws up everything. This may be an honest mistake by an employee that fell for Microsoft's own marketing, but it's still not right to spread misinformation. Is the license on this list [1]? Then it's almost certainly not open source. Also, this particular license has already been rejected by OSI.

The GPL is not the only open source license. It may screw up certain commercial usage, but it never stops users from forking the software. This
Microsoft license does.

1. http://opensource.org/
Fair enough, but I suspect people building more complex applications fall outside of that simple "CMS" based workflow, in my context the tool feels more suitable to designers producing prototypes than front-end developers producing complex production quality applications.

I also suspect your assumption that people's workflow involves a intermediate step of creating an HTML template between a flat design and a "final" implementation (in whatever form) isn't necessarily a completely sound one.
I get a 404. Anyone have a copy of the original text? Google doesn't seem to have cached it.
I just ended up on your sweet website and now I'm purchasing too much candy. What have you done? :-( This interactive pick n mixer is way too much fun.
"The "login" bit is often not where the biggest win for third-part auth is. It's in reducing friction in registration."

Yes, which makes it particularly annoying when a website advertizes sign-up via social network only to immediately follow this sign-up with its own registration form, making the social network signup stage an additional stage in signing up, rather than a substitute.
And Sci-Fi has done far more for tech innovation than Steve Jobs. Too bad the authors never get any credit.
I guess it depend on where on the planet one is (or maybe its on the not-the-usa-planet). I am not sure banks where I live even have anything called 401k plans. They do have stocks and bonds, but its not something commonly talked about. pension savings are done mostly through tax but in rare occasions, addition money is added by the place you work from. In very extreme rare occasions, people sometimes add personal savings to it.
Genuinely curious: your clients hack around with Views on their on production site?

I'm not sure whether I think that's insane, or whether I'm simply very jealous of your clients.
I'd qualify as =might= be factored into the price of BTC. Whether it is or not depends in (large?) part on the financial acumen of people trading BTC and if they're bothering to model what the effects will be.
You gotta trim the string upon searches. Very good design and idea, hope it gets to be a good game.
There is one feature of Smarty that is worth having in my opinion, that is the template inheritance. Basically similar to .NET master pages, Rails layouts and I think Django is built the same way. Much cleaner rather than including header/footer files.

Though I don't like having to use the Smarty psuedo-language, I do like the organization of code that it provides.
But the images get cropped to the width of the screen making it impossible to read the content on WP7:-/

That's because most people's idea of designing for mobile is "tailor for Webkit and screw (actual web-standards and) anything else".

You learn this quickly and brutally should you ever try to venture on to the open web using Firefox mobile on your Android device. I can't even imagine how little concern has been put into MSIE mobile, given its absolute minescule market-share, and how surfing the mobile web with it would be.
This tape really is worth listening to for anyone who was not involved with computers in 1983. Jobs clearly sees what is happening in the home computer revolution. He's not alone in that, many of us at that time realized that the computer was going to take over everywhere.

Around that time I worked on a project for a company that made machines to stick labels on product packets. Those machines were electromechanical and worked but were quite inflexible. I was asked to prototype a computer control of one of the machines and wrote the code by hand and demonstrated that not only was computer control cheaper and smaller it was way more flexible. For example, the electromechanical machines were unable to detect when there was a missing sticker on the roll of stickers to be applied to the products. It was trivial with computer control (and an IR detector) to add that functionality.

The machine was a 6502-based box whose interface was a hex keypad and a 6 digit seven segment display. You typed your program in in hex and ran out, but it and enough I/O channels to run the machine.

Here is is... The KIM-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
Correct. A trademark is just that: a mark used in trade. It does not come with the ability to define a standard definition for the mark's meaning, other than "~ is a trademark of $ORGANISATION".

Also, is "open source" really trademarked? Wtf? That's like a beef promo organisation trademarking "well done".
The problem with this idea when applied to this case is the motivations of people wishing to use some alternate definition. There is a real profit motive in being able to call stuff "open source" when it doesn't grant its users the same kind of freedoms the BSD or the GPL license, etc, do.

If you allow stuff like "shared source" to be called open source, you reduce the term to a meaningless buzzword, like how the term "open" is frequently abused.

citing trademarks is a heavy handed approach, but many parties with a profit motive don't care about anything except strict legality.

This is relevant in particular to this blog because Microsoft has a history of attempting to change what the term means

http://opensource.org/node/280
Hah, Google for "how to pronounce skein".
Yes. Cedar with 1.8.7 is a much saner option.
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ruby-versions
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Startup = Vision
I think you mean $40mil since the total was only 50.
12" too small...? There is a small amy of developers running off 11" MBAs out there. I guess usability depends on what IDE etc you are using though.

EDIT--
It probably helps that the MBA has a higher pixel density screen and resolution.
Planning problems can be encoded as SAT problems, for instance.
I'm wondering, what if government bans using of Bitcoin (or such a digital currency in general)? Not that it will try to block it just that it will be illegal to use it (i.e. for companies to receive Bitcoins). Will it still be used and/or useful?
Sorry I should be more clear: "stepping up the game" is their marketing innovation of delivering something then announcing it rather than the industry norm of doing it the other way round and people being bored by the time it is released.

Unfortunately they have nothing to throw out now - it's all minor improvements on something they've already sold.

None of their most "innovative products" are remarkable - it's all hype.
30 advertisers write letter of protest to Microsoft over IE10
According to this (http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/overseas/radar-detector...):

For some years now it is has been strictly forbidden under article R413-15 of the French 'Code de la Route' (highway code) to have a speed camera detector in a car in France, regardless of whether or not it is being used.
Penalties can include fines of up to €1,500, confiscation of the device and of the vehicle.
Until recently this legislation didn't apply to satellite navigation or other GPS-based systems capable of displaying fixed speed camera locations as points of interest (PoI).

Effective from 3 January 2012 French laws prohibiting drivers from carrying devices capable of detecting speed cameras have been extended to include devices able to warn or inform of the location of speed cameras e.g. satnav or gps systems capable of showing speed camera sites as PoI.

As well as now banning all devices capable of warning drivers of speed camera locations, the French government is installing around 400 new fixed speed cameras and is taking down road signs indicating the location of existing fixed speed camera sites.
Mozilla ArchiveAPI: display archive contents in Firefox implemented in nightly.
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Cameras are pretty cheap, can't they just put more in.
try the bitinstant method or try finding a local dealer at localbitcoins.com
How good is twisted working?
That should give nearly every internet protocol to the developer :D

Especially IMAP/POP/SMTP (+SSL)? :)
They described it in 1988, they predicted it's widespread use for 2000, so they were off by a decade. Still impressive.

There needs to be a 'law' for all 'futurology' and predictions that adjusts the time by a sensible factor after the predictor has justified their original guess. Simply because we're always a tad early on most predictions.
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I like analogies that aren't necessarily dismissive.

How about If you're a carpenter, you tend to make things out of wood."

You can make a lot of stuff out of wood, if you're good. You need relatively few general purpose tools. It's not always the best, but in many cases it's good enough. The first Apple had a wooden body. Early cars too.
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I think this applies to a lot of platforms, tbh. It even reminds me of when I was a #embarrassed cough# Lotus Notes developer 12 years or so ago.

I think it might be the price you pay for using a "framework". 80% = really easy, the remaining 20% is a git.
The iPod and iPhone were not leaps and bounds ahead. That is a common misconception which is powered by the marketing hype. There were other products out there which were far superior. Archos produced better music players and Nokia produced far better phones under the Symbian banner.

The differentiator was the marketing hype.

They stepped up the game by delivering on day zero which made people hang on them. That is still marketing.

Lumia marketing is horrible, but they are producing hype via innovation. Apple don't do that any more. They have nothing to deliver any more.

Their marketing has changed from "new product" to "new incremental improvement" i.e. the hype is dying.

Marketing here is purely spin.
Recreating a Classic Piece of the Web with CSS
> When I imagine easy, I imagine ad-hoc DSLs in Ruby or (dare I say it) Lisp.

These are what Martin Fowler calls an internal domain-specific language. These Ruby/Lisp/Perl/Scala/etc embedded DSL's blur the lines between an API and a DSL. What the OP is referring to is a full blown (external) DSL.
I stand by what I said: most freelancer developers are not charging what they could be. Prompting some of them to consider that fact and research/test accordingly is hardly dangerous.
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Achievements might work as motivation for some but it can also easily divert attention from work to simply 'hunting' achievements especially if you are competing with colleagues.

With the example of the visual studios achievements (http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio) that a few has already posted here, there are even achievements 'just for fun' that doesn't exactly encourage productive work. For example the 'Go To Hell' achievement for using a goto statement.
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As a book nerd myself (and a lover of JS), I really enjoyed that.I think the criticism of Dickens was undeserved, even if it was a quote - but the Shakespeare iteration was spot on, loved it.
I like analogies that aren't necessarily dismissive.

How about If you're a carpenter, you tend to make things out of wood."

You can make a lot of stuff out of wood, if you're good. You need relatively few general purpose tools. It's not always the best, but in many cases it's good enough. The first Apple had a wooden body. Early cars too.

Technology is giving us a lot of stuff which we call "tools" but we might also call "materials." Like physical tools and materials, they all take time to learn and much longer to understand well. Sometimes we use chisels & planks when welding pipes or casting iron would be better because we have a woodworking setup in the garage.
"If EA were some kind of exploitative entity, wouldn't we have heard about it sooner? Wouldn't we have heard about it from multiple people? Instead, it's coming from someone whose husband clearly had trouble climbing the career ladder at the firm." [Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hoffman]

Given the problems that suing your employer is likely to give you, few people do so even if their employer is really bad.

(I have no opinion on this case, and there are people who sue their employer for no good reason. But the fact that it's just one lady is not a strong argument.)
Great effort put into this but if you going to be editing source code, do it in your text editor. If you want a 'live' view of your changes use something like http://livereload.com/

livereload doesn't just refresh the page, it also updates css/js on the fly also through ajax without any lag.
This is cool as a joke, but I don't think code should be compared to writing.

For example I am an engineer, so this comment is written like code. It contains just enough words to express my point, it's clearly structured and my goal is to make it easy to read.

That's okay writing, but far from great. Great writers can just sit down and write amazing text. I could never do that. I have to go back, read after myself and refactor.

I wonder if other engineers feel similarly.
TypeScript = JavaScript + OO + Anders Hejlsberg + Apache 2.0 license
HTML5 Offline Storage Benchmark
The comment higher up says A/B testing is used, that may be true for publishers that make use of performance ads. If you're a well known entity then you try to only accept brand ads (CPM - pay per impression/view), and those brand ads come with lots of conditions.

Advertisers want to appear near the top of the page or near the top of the content - that's why ad networks have rules about the placement of ads. Even Google (which is more performance than brand) limits the number of units that are displayed on a single page.

If your ads are at the top then there's a good chance that they will appear on the user's screen. If your ads are at the bottom and the user found the article boring then the browser was closed before seeing the ad, yet the impression was still paid for (hence, much lower rates).
Because the only people who click advertisements use IE
Why not just use Vim, that we all know is powerful and has already all it needs?
I hesitate to contribute to a troll thread, but Apple is a commercialiser of technology. That involves both marketing and engineering - it's not creating a new vision, but realizing a vision.

For example, with the iPhone 5, they doubled CPU performance in a year - better than Moore's Law. It's not a new vision, but it is an engineering accomplishment.